Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) vs o1

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) at $11.50 in and $57.50 out and o1 at $17.25 in and $69.00 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

Anthropic

$0.10

for a client proposal

$11.50 in · $57.50 out / 1M

1M context · released 2 months ago

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OpenAI

$0.14

for a client proposal

$17.25 in · $69.00 out / 1M

200K context · released December 2024

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about $0.24 for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) at $11.50 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) at $57.50 per million tokens.
Largest context: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) at 1M tokens — about 1,400 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

$0.05

$0.07

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

$0.10

$0.14

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

$2.01

$2.95

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

$0.46

$0.67

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

$3.05

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

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Pricing

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

Input / 1M tokens

$11.50

$17.25

Output / 1M tokens

$57.50

$69.00

Cached input / 1M

$1.15

$8.63

Web search

1.1¢ / search

Specs

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

Provider

Anthropic

OpenAI

Released

2 months ago

December 2024

Context window

200K

Max output

128K

100K

Input

Text, Images, and Files

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

—

2023-10-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

Anthropic

$0.05

for this task

44% input · 56% output

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OpenAI

$0.07

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: $0.12. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 41 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about $0.10.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) pricing →o1 pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) or o1?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) at $0.10; o1 at $0.14. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) and o1 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about $0.24 for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about $0.24 for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.